Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.
Placeholder image policy
The archive still uses placeholder art when an exact public reference scan has not been matched cleanly to the checklist entry.
2005-06
The 2005 source page uses the spaced Name Plates wording, but this card sits squarely in the Noble Nameplates lineage collectors track across the run. LeBron's inclusion makes the family especially useful for showing that 2005 retained strong visual and conceptual continuity with the brand's earlier premium insert identity.
| Year | 2005-06 |
|---|---|
| Set | Upper Deck Exquisite Collection Basketball |
| Subset | Noble Name Plates |
| Insert family | Noble Nameplates |
| Card number | #NN-LJ |
| Players | LeBron James |
| Teams | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| Rookie | No |
| Autograph | Yes |
| Memorabilia | Yes |
| Serial numbering | /25 |
| Appearance kind | solo |
Project source notes
Source references
Exact public reference scan matched to this specific 2003 card from a Google-surfaced card page. External image remains hosted by the source.
A debut-year nameplate insert sample. The archive labels the family Noble Nameplates and notes that some source pages use Notable Nameplates wording for the same 2003 checklist, a small but important archival detail.
Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.
2005-06
LeBron's 2005 Numbers card is a perfect example of Exquisite using jersey digits themselves as design language. It is one of the strongest cross-year family anchors in the archive because it shows how the number-piece idea stays collectible even when the rookie class is no longer the whole story.
Local placeholder art. Not an actual card image.
Jordan's 2005 Limited Logos card is one of the best examples of why the set deserves more than a rookie-only reading. By this point Limited Logos is not a debut-year novelty at all; it is an established visual signature of the brand, and Jordan remains one of the clearest ways to feel that continuity.
